What is Trauma?
Trauma is insidious, yet its impact is often misunderstood. It harms individuals, while remaining pervasive in the policies and practices that shape our justice system.
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Trauma is Everywhere
Today’s justice system inflicts substantial trauma upon millions, while refusing to provide the healing that any of those impacted need.
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VOCA & Victim Services
Our justice system assumes that survivors of violence and trauma need punishment for the person who harmed them. Yet the vast majority of survivors’ needs have nothing to do with what happens to the person who harmed them.
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Apply for VOCA Funding
We have updated the VOCA Toolkit to reflect new guidelines released by the federal Office of Victims of Crime (OVC). Learn more here.
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Bridging the Divide
Two years in the making, this report is the culmination of four groundbreaking convenings that brought together criminal justice reformers and crime victim advocates to imagine a new justice system.
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